Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-07-29
State Oc,ps.

speared a %G5-pound sturgeon.
Fred Money, a brakeman on the st.
%Johnsbury and Lake Champlain railroad,
was thrown from a car at North Concord
the other day and instantly killed.
The Rutland selectmen have bought
the Learned estate in that town, Co or 20
acres, with a house and two barns. for a
farm for town paupers, paying $4,000 for
it.
The new steel steamer C~hateaugay is in
frame at Wilmington, Del. The hull will
be taken apart again and shipped to Bur-
lington in a few days. The engine and
boiler are now OF their way to the lake.
The will of the late Judge Poland has
been filed for probate in the Lamoille
county court at Hyde Park. 1t provides
for no public requests, the property all
being left to his family. 1t is said that
his estate will settle for 100000.
The celebration of the centennial of
Castleton seminary will occur August 10.
This institution is now the State normal
school. The fall term will begin August
10. 1t is a remarkably successful school
under Principal Leavenworth.
Monday evening a five-year-old boy
named F~radenburg, while playing on the
bank of the Wallomsac river at Benning-
ton, fell in and drowned. The water was
very high. The body was recovered a
quarter of a mile below.
The officers of the Barlow Gravs OF St.
Adams have returned to the governor
their commissions, the company having
decided TO disband. Mai. NJ. ID. Green is
to act as post adiutant at the Bennington
muster, Maj. William Smith as post
quartermaster and Maj. j. c. Rutherford
as post surgeon.
y meeting of the breeders of road and
t%rotting horses in Caledonia. Orleans and
Essex counties will be held at the st.
Johnsbury House in st. .Iohnsburv,
August 8, at 10 o'clock a. m. Tor the pur-
pose of organizing an association. by the
election of officers and the adoption of a
N'ISNilutlbu anu DN-ldNs.
Henry O. Aiken, who has been elected
principal of the Rutland high school, is
Il grandson of Rev. DR.. Silas Aiken, form
erly pastor Of the Congregational church
III Rutland and first president of the
school board under the graded system.
He is a graduate of Dartmouth college
! and has hpcn "a tutcr thAra
An exchange says: John II. Craig. who
claims to be the heaviest man living. pass
ed over the Delaware and Hudson road
Friday. He said that he weighed sll
pounds and was en- route from a New
York museum TO Waterbury, Vt. Among
his baggage were a monste snake and Il
monkey in two soap boxes. Craig had a
seat all to himself.
The town hall at Bellows Falls. which
is fast approaching completion. is a fine
brick structure with ~brown-stone trim
mings, contains stores and library rooms
on first floor, and a hall above with "A
seating capacity of 100. The stage i
ample and will be furnished with drop
curtains, scenery, ante-roOms, etc. The
town issued bonds to the amount of 500
600 to build with.
The special committee for considering
the matter of an increase of admission TO
the Joint exhibition at Howard park, Bur-
lington, say in their recent report that
the increase was Il necessity. When the
grounds and buildings at Howard park
were made in 1852 the stock of the Yer
mont state agricultural society and
Champlain Valley association, of S25, 900,
was not enough to foot the bills, and this
plunged the joint organization into "A
debt of Sl3,0 900 which they have had to
liquidate by an increase of the admission.
The stockholders of the Rutland rail
road company held their annual meeting
at Rutland Tuesday. The directors were
reelected rs follows: Charles Clement
of Rutland, John W. Stewart of Middle
bury, George II. Bell of Boston. William
Wells and Bradley b. Smalley of Bur-
lington, Silas Pierce and Charles q.
hite of Boston, Charles .Amsden of
Amsdein, Percival W. Clement of Rut-
land. Charles Clement was reelected
president and Percival W. Clement, vice
president.
Windsor is now ENJOYING the benefit of
the long and short haul clause of the in
terstate IN law as interpreted by
the management of the Connecticut Riv-
er railroad system. The freight per ton
for coal from Greenfield to this place, a
distance of II miles, is SIPS from Bellows
Falls to Windsor, 26 miles, the freight is
ST. Before the enactment of the in
terstate ommerc law Rutland was a
competing point is supplying our market
with coal. BY the remarkable iuterpreta-
ton of long and ''short haul" noted
above, Rutland is cut off, and our coal
consumers are left to the mercy Green
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